As some noted in comments, I was too busy this weekend to say anything thoughtful or knowledgable [so what else is new?--ed Hey--I didn't hire you to snark at me!] about the third anniversary of the action to remove Saddam, but Mohammed at Iraq the Model wasn't.

The problem is not in removing Saddam; the problem is in pretending that we want to do it "justly." Saddam could have been removed with a bullet years ago, but that wouldn't be the way of "freedom fighters."

The world had a similar problem with Milosevic. After five years of the World Court screwing around for "justice", he upped and died. Mission accomplished, but there was much wringing of hands that he wasn't brought to justice.

The AP had an on line article yesterday titled, "More deaths as war continues." War does generally cause death, but never on this small a scale, for the number of peole liberated. How many civilians were dead in Europe at the end of 3 years of war? And do we count from September 1939 or from when the U.S. entered 2 years later in December 1941? How many people had died in the concentration camps alone, by the end of 1942 or 1944 respectively? Far fewer than the 32,000 in Iraq to date. And how many of those 32,000 are dead at the hands of the insurgents? More than in collateral dammage from our attacks.

Saddam, if we believe other AP reports, was killing several thousand of his own people per year. Mass graves account for 50,000 plus deaths. We keep finding mass graves. I guess those deaths don't count because American feet were not on the ground yet.

Well this particular war has caused the death of fewer American service people than any other. Everyone of the deaths of service members in the war on terror agreed to give his or her life when they stuck there hand in the air and swore that oath! I don't follow the liberals on their old, "even one death is too many" thinking. Deaths are tragic, every family who has lost a man or woman is suffering. But is that loss any greater than if the loss was caused by cancer or from drugs?

Since the war started, 120,000 Americans have died in car accidents, 40,000 Americans have died as the results injuries from falling, 12,000 Americans have died from drowning. Are those families any less affected by the losses? I doubt it. But the 2300 people who have died in the war have families who should be able to see some sense of the cause of their loss and pain.

Cindy Sheehan and her like are of course not included.

Steve you are absolutely 100% correct.